The only event of “Effetto Venezia” taking place outside the Venice quarter is a performance of “Cavalleria Rusticana” in “Piazza XX Settembre”.Another brilliant mind, you noticed we have so many here, moved the action from a village in Sicily to somewhere in Spain, only to please this year's Iberian fixation of the “Effetto” organizers.
Not a single note in the music of Mascagni sounds as even vaguely Spanish, a song is sung in Sicilian and the characters bear quite un-Spanish names like Santuzza and Turiddu. Lola could even do as a Spanish name, but her opening aria is a Tuscan “stornello”...
We went at the Saturday dress rehearsal, open to the public. Here the women of the chorus was still rehearsing without costumes.
Sicilian (or Spanish) peasant women had a strange resemblance to the parasoled women of so many Monet's paintings.
In his opening scene Alfio, the village teamster, was waving a whip so huge that could tame a dinosaur.
Lucia, Turiddu's mother, duetting with Santuzza. The acoustic was “enhanced” by using electronic amplification.See also: White Night - Venezia Makes Effect - Effetto Venezia
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